Law of Developmental

Motivation

“ I am complete but not finished”

 There exists a profound truth in the
understanding of human behavior: only
unsatisfied needs motivate!
 There also exist two types of motivation:
developmental motivation and deficiency
motivation. Both fulfill unsatisfied needs.
However, one leads to a satisfying life:
the other, to a life of discontent.
Understanding and practicing
developmental motivation is crucial to
experiencing wellness.
 It was huge trap. When we motivate
ourselves from this mind-set, we can never
know life satisfaction. Why? Because we’ll
always suffer from the dreadful disease
called “more.”
 What was wrong was my motivating mind-
set. I was motivating myself from what was
missing in my life. I may have satisfied a
want, but my mind-set was never satisfied.
I was always focused on wanting more –
on striving, not arriving.
 Maslow- Deficiency vs.
Developmental Motivation
 Maslow theorized two different kinds of motivation: Motivation
to satisfy a Deficiency, and Motivation towards Growth. 
 He believed that at the core of every neurosis was an
unfulfilled need. If a person did not have a way to meet their
basic needs for safety, belonging, love and respect, that
person would create a neurotic symptom to attempt to satisfy
in some way this unmet need. 
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 The perceived lack will expand. Something
will always be missing. What’s deficient in
your life will become your calling card, your
life experience.
 Enter the great non-negotiable Law of
Development Motivation.
 The essence of the law is this: I am complete
but not finished. This is the statement of
powerful truth.
 You are complete, whole, and fully alive right
now! You need no more for life to be happy.
You can be completely fulfilled with what is
now.
 Of course we’re not yet finished.
Even though we are complete,
growth, change, and becoming are
part of life. Our physical body
constantly replaces itself with new
cells. Our mental capacities grow.
Our spiritual reality provides a
constant source of renewal. We
grow and change naturally – by
choice, not from lack.
 We are complete now, yet our natural
development calls for further growth. This
shift in thinking is critical. Lacks become
impossible. When we can see the
inevitability of growth and change, we begin
to become motivated by our dreams not our
deficiencies.
 We feel fully alive because lack is no
longer part of our thinking process. We
no longer see ourselves as deficient.
We are free to grow and change – but
not because we are incomplete.
Instead, we seek growth and change
because we are internally motivated to
give, to serve, and to love.
 This is the Law of Development
Motivation. It changes the way we
perceive achievement and view life.
 Our greatest perceived need is physical
survival. The second greatest perceived
human need is psychological survival.
The third is spiritual survival. There is a
hierarchy of the perceptions: physical,
psychological, and spiritual. Body, mind,
spirit. In that order.
 Satisfied needs, be they physical,
psychological or spiritual, do not
motivate.
 Only unsatisfied hungers move people.
This is one of the most powerful
understandings we can have of
ourselves and of others.
“When we can see the inevitability of growth
and change, we begin to become motivated
by our dreams, not our deficiencies.
“We are free to grow and change - but not
because we are incomplete . Instead, we
seek growth and change because we are
internally motivated to give , to serve and to
love”.
 “But the mere fact that we have
unsatisfied needs does not mean we are
deficient”.

With the Law of Developmental

Motivation, we’re seeking the complete
development of our life potential
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